1979 PIA "New York 16 h 30" WTC Twin Towers plane crashing press ad

I don't really know what to say about this PIA press ad from a bygone era... Except, remember when you could do bold graphic image solutions in advertising without offending anyone? Yeah, neither can I. Here's a dramatic black and white press ad for PIA - Pakistani Airlines - advertising that they fly to New York.

Honestly, why hasn't this been all over the web a million times already? Oh, it has, and I missed it? Sorry. Still worth a second look. Ktxbye.
...Is that French? Wow, this just gets weirder doesn't it?

Amen. I have my carefully nicked pan am cutlery and pan am bags still. You know, when they took the sign off the Pan Am building in New York I had a roof party to toast it goodbye. ;) I was very brand loyal to them.
I was crafty enough to change my tickets from Pan AM to Delta just a day or two before their bankruptcy was announced too - remember all those stranded people trying to get on other flights? That was a mess, all over the news showing huge lines of people trying to get their tickets changed to other flights, too late.

Somehow, I'm not surprised that you had that crafty forethought. :-) Pan Am was the best. Their coast to coast and TransAtlantic service was unparalleled. When they went out, I had almost achieved the miles I needed for a 30 day round the world pass. I think that was one of the best frequent flyer awards ever. 30 Days unlimited anywhere Pan Am flew. If only...

hi ive often associated the mundan and idle comunications in life to equal profetic events "
seeing the 79 add reminds me of theUnion Carbide" add i seen in Fortune
magazine from the sixtys It was basically the scene of the Bo pal Desastor tragedy that would occure in 1984 the one where
millions of people were poisened in thar sleep .
Im talking about a sixtys ad showing a merial(litho) of people who"
for all the world look terrified who appear to be fleaing the
city of Bo-pal Indiia and the union carbide plant in the background lureing above the fleaing bopal peasant citizens
it might have been the 1962 fortune or the 64 i had several
years and i no longer have them so somebody here try to
establish which year', i thought that this is relevant to this storys plot

Yeah, they had enough disaster movies in the seventies to know that some people might think "hey, isn't that flying awfully low and really close to..."
It's funny, whenever I see airline ads (and there was quite a few in the nineties) where you follow the shadow of a plane passing the quaint villages and fields and whatnot I just know an entire generation of war-kids are instinctively ducking. How the hell they convince the client that the image of an airplane shadow darkening the sky above children running in a field as not menacing is beyond me.

i think thar were 2 union carbide adds im thinking... that this... is sister add to another scene" 1 with the exacte distilery plant in background it may just be somewhat more suspicious... if my
memory serves me ,and... thank you - tod.brody' !

I've seen that PIA ad before, & seem to remember some people saying it was part of a secret 9/11 conspiracy....of course, a flight ad from the late seventies is obviously part of a diaster that takes place 22 years later...

"These days"??? - It's been like this since JFK's assassination (1963). Of course, there have been other times when real conspiracies were actually quite active, to say nothing of those conspiracies that are fantasies.

Allan...
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